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The Who 08/05/71
Music Hall, Boston, MA
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Set I
Love Ain't For Keeping
Pure And Easy
Roger Speaks
My Wife
Can't Explain
Pete's Rant: Fingers In Your Ears
Bargain
Moon's Rant
Behind Blue Eyes
Pete's Intro: Our Latest Single
Won't Get Fooled Again
Roger: It's Up To You
Baby Don't You Do It
I Don't Even Know Myself
Pinball Wizard
My Generation
Magic Bus
See Me, Feel Me
Daddy Rolling Stone
Roadrunner
Set II
 
Set III
 
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eddie hazel (5/0) Flac / 1 View  
Roy Martin\'s Music Collection (5/5) FLAC / 0 View   audience source (AA018)
Notes: trade cassette, of several analog cassette generations from the source tape > played on Nak. 300 (with speed adjusting) into soundforge (wav) > flac (sb's aligned)
Slick2007 (5/5) FLAC / 1 B View  
PeaceTrader (5/0) CDR / 2 View  
Steve K (4/5) FLAC / 1 B+ View  
David (4/5) cdr / 1 B View  
Antoine Joly (4/0) FLAC / 0 View   deck the hall with the who (what a bargain)
CHISOX75 (3/4.8) CD / 1 View  
Steve Brown (3/0) CDR / 2 View  
Notes: Vocals are pretty good. Kinda sound like your in the hallway before entering show.
KerouacAW (1/0) FLAC / 0 View  
Brian C (1/4.7) FLAC / 1 A B+ View   Unverified low gen cassette (likely 3rd/4th)
Notes: w/10/20/82
mike (1/5) Flac / 1 View   August 1971 might be August 6? (they played Boston Aug. 4-7, 4 nights, this is all from one of...
Notes: trade cassette, of several analog cassette generations from the source tape > played on Nak. 300 (with speed adjusting) into soundforge (wav) > flac (sb's aligned) > torrentially yours. A who knows what this comes from production. according to etree listing, this recording is missing "baby don't you do it" (after won't get fooled). based on the typical length of 1971 who shows, this is quite likely true, that, and/or one or two other songs may be missing in this recording. this post includes all that is on the tape I have. the recording (possibly a previous transfer of it) has some flaws in it where the music cuts out momentarily, and there are a couple of parts with fairly loud shuffling noises from crowd movement, but there don't appear to be any tape flip interruptions in any of the songs included here. etree lists this show as August 5, 1971, but the tape says August 20 and they were in Chicago on Aug. 19, so either date could be right. the tape ran quite slow to my ears so I speed adjusted it based on how I'm used to hearing these songs sound. Quadrophenia, Tommy and Who's Next are probably my staple Who albums so I'm very familiar with how these songs should normally sound. It's a what was that production (the sound isn't anything to get excited over) fortunately the band is a Who was there production. the performance is very good and all four of them contribute some interesting between song banter. fortunately most of that seems to be included here. no idea how many generations the tape source of this comes from, but it's a few, unfortunately the hiss is rather prominent, probably from analog tape copy lineage, and there is a moderate amount of crowd noise, it's not overwhelming. otherwise the recording is not too bad for this era, and all the instruments and vocals (and between song stage talk) are clearly heard. this is the first who's next live recording I ever heard, and I didn't notice any cuts in the recording, but there are a few problems, either in the source or a previous transfer of it between the original and my tape copy, some bumps from crowd movements and a few momentary interruptions. I've reduced a few of the bumps to make them less intrusive to the listening experience. I did not use any EQ or noise reduction. there's mention of them playing 4 nights in Boston, but I think they played just 2. Pete says they're playing louder in Boston because they weren't playing loud enough anywhere else. If they really did play 4 nights (apparently they like Boston, but I am surprised they ever did that), this could be called "deck the hall with the Who for a week" (part 1,2,3 or 4, whichever one it may be), but in any case it was a good time. apparently the Who did not play Boston in 1972, but in 1973 for "Quadrophenia", they played at Boston Garden (the local hockey arena) as they did in 1979 and a few times before that.
Stuart Ferguson (1/4.3) CDR / 1 View   Audience
Notes: DVD 966; lineage: trade cassette, of several analog cassette generations from the source tape > played on Nak. 300 (with speed adjusting) into soundforge (wav) > flac (sb's aligned) > torrentially yours. A who knows what this comes from production.
David Shapiro (1/0) / 2 View  
Pete Morin-Smith (1/5) CDr / 1 View   Unverified low gen cassette (likely 3rd/4th)>Tascam Deck>Sonic Foundry>DC offset...
Mathias (0/5) FLAC / 1 View  
CitizenGatsby (0/3.9) FLAC / 1 View   AUD
Notes: Source: AUD Lineage: Unverified low gen cassette (likely 3rd/4th) > Tascam Deck > Sonic Foundry > DC offset correction in Steinberg Wavelab > CDWave > FLAC Notes: Talking 'bout my g-g-g-generation... sadly, many who collect The Who do not keep nor even care about tape generation histories. In fact it is a challenge to even find a vintage Who concert from a tape source. So we are proud to offer you a genuine Keith Moon era show sourced from a tape instead of the usual lame-ass bootleg cd source. This cassette is most likely 3rd or 4th gen copy from the master as best as can be determined but since we don't have a list of names in the trade history there is no sense in bullshitting you. The sound is good to very good. ~KEITH MOON: "I WAS BORN IN BOSTON"~
The Paxman (0/0) cdr / 1 View